"A lot of companies will cease to exist while Swatch, the monopoly operator, will simply get stronger," said Peter Stas, the Dutch co-owner of Frédérique Constant, an independent watch company in Geneva that is one of the plaintiffs.
Again, who is the monopoly?
They were the first to run long-distance bus services in Britain against the monopoly operators and the first to win a rail franchise.Stagecoach is now expanding on the other side of the Atlantic too.
The chief beneficiaries will be former monopoly operators in Europe and the "Baby Bell" regional operators in America, plus a handful of other carriers, including AT&T, Equant, Cable & Wireless and Infonet".The days of bargain-basement communications are almost over"These firms are seen as relatively safe bets by large companies, and can therefore charge premium rates.
When Japan's telecoms market was liberalised in the 1990s the former monopoly operator, NTT, was forced to compete.
This could be because the monopoly concept is central to the professions and professionalization, and, in general, technical occupations are subordinated to professions that already hold professional monopoly.
China Unicom will acquire a 0.88percentt stake in Telefónica, the former Spanish phone monopoly, which owns the European mobile operator O2 and is the largest mobile operator in Latin America.
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"The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly.
The issue is the near monopoly that cable and satellite TV operators have over the converter boxes that enable consumers to unscramble and watch the channels for which they've paid.
